The Secret of Skinwalker Ranch | S6 E1 | Intro Jump Ahead Of What Was Found In The Mesa [2025]

Okay, I’m going at it again.
Is it moving at all?
I don’t think so.
Yeah, this is a pretty hard layer I’m in right here.

Now what do we do? That doesn’t make any sense.
I guess they found weird in the spoils.

Hey Chris.
Hey guys, thanks for coming over.
Yeah man, something I wanted to show you that I really can’t believe that we found inside the mesa.

What the hell is this?
What is that?
Ceramics?

What?

This is probably about 470 ft in the mesa and about 100 ft deep.
We’ve been hitting something that they’re saying, you know, it feels harder than even granite.

Travis, look at the patterning.
I see what you’re talking about. It’s like a cross-hatch pattern in it.
That’s amazing.

This is even stranger than the metal fragments we’ve been pulling out of the mesa.
This is artificial.

Yes.
What—it is manufactured.

Holy crap.
There’s a manufactured material inside the mesa.

Yes.

For the last 5 years, our team has been working to figure out what in the world is buried deep inside the Rocky Mesa on Skinwalker Ranch.
It all started with legends that we heard about a possible secret military base, or—believe it or not—even an extraterrestrial spacecraft.
Things that just sounded insane.

But using ground penetrating radar, we’ve detected what we believe could be a 400 ft long object buried inside there, and it’s surrounded by several smaller anomalies.
We’ve also found metal fragments in drilling spoils that are similar to what NASA and SpaceX used to protect the surface of their spacecraft.

And tonight, our drilling operation recovered something even stranger.

I want to take a radiation measurement.
All right.
Okay, so I’m seeing 37 to 68.
All right, let’s try it on the sample.

Instantly 105!
Holy—
It’s radioactive?
Yes, that’s amazing.

What in the hell is this stuff?
Unbelievable.
I got chills, dude.

We got to get this thing to a lab and get it tested.
I’ve got several samples mounted, so I’m going to bring these over.

Okay.

A couple of days later, ranch owner Brandon Fugal arranged for us to meet with physicist Dr. Brian Patchet at Utah Valley University to examine the ceramics we found in the mesa with a scanning electron microscope.

Now that’s a device that bombards objects with electrons in order to magnify them up to a million times their actual size.
Shouldn’t take too long, it’s been running fairly quickly today.
We’re hoping that this will give us an idea of what this material is and what it might have been used for.

There we go.
Look at that surface right there.
Oh, you can see the crosshatch pattern in it.
That doesn’t look like mother nature.
No, it doesn’t.

I’m going to reposition this a little—zoomed in a little bit.
There we go.
I can see some clearly defined, like, holes.
Oh yeah.

Are those holes getting bigger?
Yes, I think so.
What—it is—it’s opening up!

Holy crap, look at that.
What if it’s the electron beam from the microscope that’s causing this?
Let’s turn it off to see if it goes back to normal.

Yeah, we can do that.
Let’s see what happens.
Okay.
All right, here we go.

So that does not look as porous.
No, as it was. Not nearly.
I have the old screen grab—look at that.

I’ve never seen anything that is capable of doing this.
This stuff is fixing itself.
Yes.
It’s healing.
That’s exactly right.
Unbelievable.

What the hell is in that mesa?